Patents by Inventor Qingtai Zhai

Qingtai Zhai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Mobile robots with intelligent capacitive touch sensing
    Patent number: 10744650
    Abstract: A mobile robot includes a recessed well in a top surface of the mobile robot, at least one capacitive sensor underlying the recessed well and having a first region and a second region, one or more mobility sensors, and a controller coupled to the at least one capacitive sensor and the one or more mobility sensors. The controller is configured to determine an operating status of the mobile robot responsive to output signals from the one or more mobility sensors, and selectively disregard an input at a first portion of the recessed well corresponding to the first region of the at least one capacitive sensor based on the operating status of the mobile robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Rogelio Manfred Neumann, Landon Unninayar, Fangzheng Guo, Qingtai Zhai, John P. O'Brien, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Travis Gschrey, Milan Modh
  • MOBILE ROBOTS WITH INTELLIGENT CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING
    Publication number: 20200070355
    Abstract: A mobile robot includes a recessed well in a top surface of the mobile robot, at least one capacitive sensor underlying the recessed well and having a first region and a second region, one or more mobility sensors, and a controller coupled to the at least one capacitive sensor and the one or more mobility sensors. The controller is configured to determine an operating status of the mobile robot responsive to output signals from the one or more mobility sensors, and selectively disregard an input at a first portion of the recessed well corresponding to the first region of the at least one capacitive sensor based on the operating status of the mobile robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Rogelio Manfred Neumann, Landon Unninayar, Fangzheng Guo, Qingtai Zhai, John P. O'Brien, Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Travis Gschrey, Milan Modh